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Broken mirrors, broken minds...
It's "Alison" by Seras Nikita, read for you by Dagny Keith Paul!


Context is everything...
It's "The All Or Nothing Days" by Gus Moreno, read for you by Maui Threv!


Tragic monsters
It's "Fade To Gold" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, read for you by Jen Zink!


A doll is not an imitation of life....
It's "A Doll Full Of Nails" by Ville Meriläinen, read for you by Riku Kanninen!


Eternal cycles, death and revolution...
It's "Four Hours of a Revolution" by Premee Mohamed, read for you by Ian Stuart!


Life in the tree-tops, after the end of it all...but man is always hungry....
It's "Evitative" by B.C. Edwards, read for you by Dani Daly, with a specially crafted soundbed by your humble servant.


The open road, love, money, freedom...and a death-cult in the way...
It's "‘Till the Road Runs Out" by Luciano Marano, read for you by the redoubtable Dave Robison!


The lives of artists and aesthetes, in service to a yellow king...
It's "Toward the Banner of the King" by T.R. North, read for you by Justine Eyre!


The costs of service, to you and yours...
It's "Granite Requires" by T.J. Berry, read for you by Laura Hobbs!


Diogenes had it easy....
It's "Better to Curse the Darkness than Light a Candle" by Joseph Cusumano, read by Cheyenne Wright!


Kudzu, and the secrets it conceals...
I am very proud to present "Where The Summer Ends" by Karl Edward Wagner, read (and audio produced!) for you by the indomitable Anson Mount!


Social media assemblagé...
It's "A Howling Dog" by Nick Mamatas, read by "divers voyce"


“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
It's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XXXIX: TERATOLOGY featuring stories by Cassandra Khaw, Getty Hesse & Chris Kuriata, read for you by Mae Zarris-Heaney, Maui Threv &John Bell!


"Bad luck isn't brought by broken mirrors. But by broken minds..."
It's "Hello, Handsome" by Garrett Cook, read for you by The Word Whore! Music by Terrortron!


The old shell game...
It's "Cuckoo" by Angela Slatter, read for you by Victoria Winnick!


A Visit to Halloween Street, and a parade...
It's Flash On The Borderlands XL: Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem and read to you by Alasdair Stuart, Brian Lieberman, Setsu Uzume and Daniel Braum!


The horrors of the German camps birth further horrors...
It's "Passover" by Caspian Gray, read for you by Elie Hirschman!


A drive in the country, a strange house, and strange doorways...
It's "The Room in the Other House" by Kristi DeMeester, read by Jacquie Duckworth!


Archaic evidence of past debaucheries...
Pseudopod is very proud to present "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard, read for you by Andrew Leman!


It's "The Jamcoi", cooked up by J.M. McDermott, and carefully prepared by Setsu Uzume!


The story of a haunted house, told from the only one left to say...
It's "Haunted" by Sarah Gailey, read for you by Dani Daly!


The story of a tragedy, collage style...
It's "Deconstructing Hillsdale" by D. Morgan Ballmer, read by (of NoSleep) & divers voyce...


Cool air for a long life.
It's "Bitter Perfume" by Laura Blackwell, read for you by Emily Smith.


Pain, the arts & The King In Yellow...
It's "While the Black Stars Burn" by Lucy A. Snyder, read for you by Tatiana Grey!


A gift from Anti-Claus...
We are very proud to present "Christmas Present" by Ramsey Campbell, read for you by Phil Lunt and with sound production by Shawn M. Garrett!


Short stabs in the dark...
It's Flash on the Borderlands XLI: Flash Fiction Contest 5, featuring the winning stories by Evan Dicken, Stephanie Malia Morris & Drew Czernik, read for you by Karen Bovenmyer, Alexis Goble & Austin Malone!


The shadows pregnant with possibility...
It's "From the Fertile Dark" by Rebecca J. Allred, read for you by Dani Daly!


Have no fear, if this were really an emergency..."Alarm Will Sound" by Christopher Shultz, read by Scott Campbell and Susan Gage!


Modern fiction and modern life...
It's "All My Nightmares Are Named Heather" by Mário Coelho, read for you by Maui Threv!


The last man and women left, but problems remain...
It's "The Comet" by W.E.B. Du Bois, read and hosted by Hollis Monroe!


Caught between Scylla and Charybdis in the deep South...
It's "The Monster" by Crystal Connor, read for you by Stephanie Malia Morris!

The problems of DWB - "Driving While Blade"....
It's "After The Party" by Brandon Massey, read for you by Dominick Rabrun!

We kick off our celebration of Women In Horror, ARTEMIS RISING, with a tale of the sea...
It's "The Drowned Man's Kiss" by Christine Lucas, read for you by Andrew Leman!

Experiments with the Dead
It's "Cinereous" by Livia Llewellyn, hosted and read for you by Lucy A. Snyder, with an ALTERNATE reading by Ibba Armancas! Never say we don't treat you right!

"Up the airy mountain / Down the rushy glen / We cannot go a-hunting..."
"For Fear of Little Men" by Sandra Odell, read for you Alasdair Stuart!

Traditions and those who break them...
It's "When the Slipling Comes to Call" by N.R. Lambert, read for you by M.K. Hobson and Tina Connolly!

"Institution" has a number of meanings...
It's "The Good Mothers' Home for Wayward Girls" by Izzy Wasserstein, read for you by Tatiana Grey!


"Hell is other people" - It's Flash On The Borderlands XLII: "Misanthropes" - featuring 3 stories of outsiders by Melissa Snark, Jack London & Sam Gorenstein - read for you by The Kaz, B.J. Harrison & Tad Callin!


Control is not TOTAL control...
It's "Emperor All" by Evan Marcroft, read for you by Kris Straub!


The best traps are the simplest....
some "Free Balloons for All Good Children" are offered by Dirck de Lint and Rish Outfield!


It's "The Woman In The Hill" by Tamsyn Muir, read by Amanda Fitzwater!


We present, in 3-parts, a work of cosmic horror by Laird Barron (whose story "-30-" was adapted into the current horror film THEY REMAIN, and who has a new crime novel out, Blood Standard, "Mysterium Tremendum" (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) read for you by the redoubtable Jon Padgett!


Pixy-led by will-o-the-wisp....
It's "Fool's Fire" by Tim Pratt, read for you by Eric Luke!


Another appearance of Coyote...
It's "Walk In Beauty" by Jim Bihyeh, read for you by Cayenne Chris Conroy.


Happy Fathers Day from your synthetic child....
It's "The Boy with the Glass Eyes" by J.L. Flannery, read for you by Paul S. Jenkins!


Our 600th episode, so time for a classic...
Come dig in the soft earth, but beware "The Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner, read for you by Bob Eccles!


Punch in for the horrors of bureaucracy and commodification...
It's Flash On The Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears! with stories and readings by Thomas Welsh, Siobhan Gallichan, Linda D. Addison, Scott Campbell, Steve Rasnic Tem & Spencer DiSparti!


The haunter and the haunted....
It's "A Learned Man" by Melinda Brasher, read for you by Wilson Fowlie!


ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?
It's "Beyond The Dead Reef" by James Tiptree Jr., read for you by Amy H. Sturgis!

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An overgrown house, a strange old lady, some disturbing magazines and something in the back room. It's "Again" by Ramsey Campbell, read for you by Ant Bacon!